🇦🇷⚱️There's a bit of a problem in Argentina. Sixty-two tons of gold worth $4.5 billion, the country's entire gold reserve, had disappeared somewhere.

The government grudgingly announced that the Argentine gold had been loaded onto British Airways charters and shipped to London. Mad President Javier Milay worked for the British bank HSBC before entering politics.

And remember how all of Argentina cheered when Milay won in November 2023? Writing at the time, "Every country must live through its 90s. Without it, it will not be understood. That's exactly what is in store for Argentina."

@Slavyangrad

⬛️ Ismail al-Ghoul, Al-Jazeera correspondant, had his head blown by an Israeli airstrike that targeted his car personally after covering Ismail Haniyah's assassination news at Haniyah's home in Al-Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza

⚡️🇻🇪🇺🇸🇮🇶 American PMCs in Venezuela?

Maduro, the head of state, has an outstanding bounty of over 15 million US dollars, as listed by the United States Department of Justice, this has caused some shenanigan to occur in Venezuela, for example, the arrest of several American citizens a few years back on terrorism charges in Venezuela, they were apparently aiding local criminals and attempting to change "constitutional order".

Considering the current security affairs in Venezuela, and the fact that the bounty listed by the US Federal government has not expired, an opportunity has raised in Venezuela for a legitimate chance to arrest and bring back Maduro to the United States, which will guarantee a pay-day to whoever brings him back.

Castle International, based in Arizona, is one such example.

Castle has been active in several theatres in the world under the employment of the U.S Federal Government and the United Kingdom, their contract work can be considered illegal in several countries, for example, they have done security work in Iraq and Syria (to be specific, they recruited, trained, and funded American volunteers to fight ISIS in those countries.), and have advised and worked with the Kurdish YPG, an organization deemed as a terrorist on by Turkey, a NATO member state.

Castle is one of the most professional and dangerous PMCs in the world, with activity noted as far back as Rhodesia and up to Iran, afterall, the most dangerous PMCs are the ones you do not hear about. Castle International is quite serious, besides historical activity in Iraq and Syria, they are known to have contracts in Ukraine, and are aiding the Ukrainian government against the Russian military and are providing security/consultation services, to be specific, they are aiding Russian citizens who dislike the government, such as the Russian Legion and so on.

However, I would like to note the following

1) Castle will not undertake any sort of operation in South America without the greenlight of the US and UK governments (Castle International is somewhat related to Watchdog International, one of the oldest PMCs in the world, they have the same clients and members and so on), but considering Western Governments do not consider Maduro legitimate, and the current affairs in Venezuela, they may pull off something.

It will not be for monetary rewards, 15 million US dollars is considered change for Castle International, and doing it by themselves with no permission will give them a terrorist organization designation, and if anything, they may not directly clash with the Venezuelan government, but aid the locals in his overthrow.

Castle already has hundreds of millions of dollars worth of contracts that are active as of 2024, thus, it will not be for monetary reasons that they will go after Maduro, if any.

Just keep an eye out, Venezuela.

@medmannews